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USS FARRAGUT is the 21st Flight IIA ARLEIGH BURKE - class guided missile destroyer and the fifth ship in the Navy named after Admiral David Glasgow Farragut.
| General Characteristics: | Awarded: March 6, 1998 |
| Keel laid: January 9, 2004 | |
| Launched: July 23, 2005 | |
| Commissioned: June 10, 2006 | |
| Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine | |
| Propulsion system: four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines | |
| Propellers: two | |
| Length: 508,5 feet (155 meters) | |
| Beam: 67 feet (20.4 meters) | |
| Draft: 30,5 feet (9.3 meters) | |
| Displacement: approx. 9,200 tons full load | |
| Speed: 32 knots | |
| Aircraft: two | |
| Armament: one | |
| Homeport: Mayport, Fla. | |
| Crew: approx. 320 |
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This section contains the names of sailors who served aboard USS FARRAGUT. It is no official listing but contains the names of sailors who submitted their information.
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David Glasgow Farragut, born at Campbell's Station, near Knoxville, Tenn., 5 July 1801, entered the Navy as a midshipman 17 December 1810. When only 12 years old, he was given command of a prize ship taken by ESSEX, and brought her safely to port. Through the years that followed, in one assignment after another he showed the high ability and devotion to duty which was to allow him in the Civil War to make an overwhelming contribution to victory and to write an immortal page in the history of not only the United States Navy but of military service of all times and nations.
In command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, with his flag in HARTFORD he disproved the theory that forts ashore held superiority over naval forces, when in April 1862 he ran past Forts Jackson and St. Philip and the Chalmette batteries to take the great city and port of New Orleans (a decisive event in the war) and later that year passed the batteries defending Vicksburg. Port Hudson fell to him 9 July 1863, and on 5 August 1864 he won a great victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay, passing through heavy minefields (the torpedoes of his famous quotation) as well as the opposition of heavy batteries in Forts Morgan and Gaines to defeat the squadron of Admiral Franklin Buchanan.
His country honored its great sailor by creating for him the rank of Admiral, never before used in the United States Navy. Admiral Farragut's last active service was in command of the European Squadron with FRANKLIN as his flagship, and he died at Portsmouth, N.H., 14 August 1870.
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USS FARRAGUT History:
USS FARRAGUT was built at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, with her keel laid on January 9, 2004, christened on July 23, 2005, and commissioned at Naval Station Mayport, Florida, on June 10, 2006. Early service set the pattern of combat-systems trials, Atlantic workups, and weapons on-loads that prepared the destroyer for sustained deployments from her Mayport homeport.
The ship's first overseas deployment began on April 7, 2008, when she departed Mayport to support Partnership of the Americas 2008 under U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command. Over six months she combined maritime-security cooperation with port visits around Latin America and the Caribbean before mooring again in Mayport on October 5, 2008. After additional training and certifications, FARRAGUT left Mayport in January 2010 for the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. For much of that deployment she served as flagship for Combined Task Force 151, conducting counter-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden and western Indian Ocean. Port calls included Port Victoria, Seychelles, and later Salalah, Oman, and Manama, Bahrain. During the cruise her helicopter and visit-board-search-and-seizure team disrupted pirate activity on February 21, 2010, and on April 1, 2010, boarded and neutralized pirate skiffs following an attack on the tanker EVITA northwest of the Seychelles, before the ship returned to Florida in August 2010.
FARRAGUT deployed again on June 20, 2012, crossing the North Atlantic and entering the U.S. Sixth Fleet theater for port visits and engagement events in Port Mahon (Menorca), Riga, Tallinn, Bodo, Severomorsk, Wilhelmshaven, and La Rochelle. In the autumn she shifted to the U.S. Fifth Fleet area for maritime-security and theater-security-cooperation tasking, then headed west via the Mediterranean with logistics stops in Santander and Lisbon, arriving back in Mayport on April 7, 2013, after roughly nine and a half months deployed. During January 2013, in coordination with regional partners, U.S. forces intercepted the motor vessel JIHAN-1 off Yemen, seizing a cargo of illicit Iranian-origin arms. Contemporaneous reporting associated FARRAGUT with that operation as part of broader efforts to curb weapons flows in the Arabian Sea.
On March 9, 2015, the destroyer departed Mayport with THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71) Carrier Strike Group for Fifth Fleet operations amid elevated tensions in and around the Strait of Hormuz. On April 28, 2015, U.S. Central Command directed FARRAGUT at best speed toward the Strait after Iranian patrol craft fired upon and boarded the Marshall Islands-flagged MAERSK TIGRIS. U.S. releases described FARRAGUT and forward-deployed patrol craft as monitoring the situation and supporting the safety of commercial navigation. The ship completed the deployment later that year and returned to Mayport in November 2015.
From 2016 through 2017, FARRAGUT cycled through maintenance, basic phase training, and Atlantic fleet exercises from Mayport. In September 2017, the crew supported waterfront recovery and movements at Mayport following Hurricane Irma's passage through Florida. The ship maintained a high state of readiness across 2016-2017, a period in which she received Battle "E" recognition for overall combat efficiency.
On April 11, 2018, FARRAGUT departed Mayport for a dynamic employment to the U.S. Sixth Fleet theater, operating with HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75) strike group elements in the Mediterranean while conducting maritime security, anti-submarine warfare training with allies, and routine presence operations. She returned to Mayport on November 10, 2018, concluding nearly seven months deployed. In December, a change-of-command release summarized the cruise's focus on freedom of navigation, theater security cooperation, and allied integration under Sixth Fleet.
In late July 2019, FARRAGUT again got underway from Mayport. Because flagship availability in the Atlantic fluctuated that autumn, several of HARRY S. TRUMAN's escorts - including FARRAGUT - deployed forward as a surface action group while the carrier resolved maintenance issues. During September, the ship also sortied to sea with other Mayport units to avoid Hurricane Dorian's approach to the Florida coast. In early October, she operated from Souda Bay, Crete, conducting logistics and community-relations events from October 7-10 before resuming patrols in the central and eastern Mediterranean.
While operating in the North Arabian Sea on January 9, 2020, FARRAGUT reported an unsafe approach by the Russian intelligence ship IVAN KHURS. U.S. Fifth Fleet released video and statements detailing the incident as the destroyer continued theater operations. FARRAGUT completed the long deployment and returned to Naval Station Mayport on June 14, 2020, alongside USS LASSEN (DDG 82), after nine months across the U.S. 2nd, 4th, 5th, and 6th Fleet regions.
After Atlantic training and certifications through 2021, the destroyer departed Mayport on August 6, 2022, assigned to GEORGE H. W. BUSH (CVN 77) Carrier Strike Group for a Sixth Fleet deployment that included NATO vigilance activity Neptune Strike 22.2 and sustained operations in the Ionian and central Mediterranean. Port visits during the cruise included Djen Djen (Algeria) on September 18 and Piraeus (Greece) on October 10.
In 2023, FARRAGUT shifted to a U.S. Fourth Fleet mission set, arriving in the Caribbean on February 15 with a U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment embarked for Joint Interagency Task Force South counter-narcotics operations. Through early 2024, the ship reported multiple interdictions across key transit routes and returned to Mayport on February 3, 2024, concluding the SOUTHCOM deployment with theater-security-cooperation events that included a port visit to Willemstad, Curacao.
In July 2025, FARRAGUT made an Independence Day port visit to Eastport, Maine, from July 2-7 for community engagement and liberty before resuming operations at sea.
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| Period | Homeport |
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| commissioned at Mayport, Fla. | |
| 2006 - present | Mayport, Fla. |
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USS FARRAGUT Construction Gallery:
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USS FARRAGUT Image Gallery:
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The photos below were taken by me and show the FARRAGUT at HMNB Portsmouth, UK, on October 8, 2018. The ship is already deployed to the North Atlantic for almost 6 months. It is her second port visit to Portsmouth during the deployment. Note the "blue nose" on the bow indicating that the FARRAGUT has crossed the Arctic Circle.
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